Amie is an accomplished documentary film producer/director. Specializing in film and video for labor unions and related community organizations, Amie has more recently forayed into screenwriting, developing stories from her documentary background into narrative feature films.

Past films include No Sweat, (2006) about bad-boy clothing manufacturer American Apparel, which recently premiered at the AFI Film Festival and was broadcast on KQED and Current TV; Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis (2004) about a childhood leukemia cluster, an-ITVS funded film broadcast on PBS; Stripped and Teased: Tales from Las Vegas Women (2001), broadcast on Canadian television; One Day Longer: The Story of the Fronteir Strike (2002); and Uncommon Ground: From Los Angeles to South Africa (1994).

These films have won numerous awards, including the International Documentary Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Media Grant, the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant, Pioneer Fund, Paul Robeson Fund and the A.F.I. Independent Film and Videomakers Award. She also received a National Arts Council grant to teach in Japan and Singapore, and to show her work. Amie also directs political television ads for such clients as the AFL-CIO, California Nurses’ Association, and numerous candidates, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Lt. Governor of CA, Cruz Bustamante, State Controller John Chiang, etc, working for political consultant Parke Skelton of SG&A Campaigns. She has served as a mentor for the Independent Feature Project, and taught many video workshops to underprivileged youth.

Prior to her film career, she lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for non-profit organizations, and continues to sponsor a street theater group of homeless AIDS orphans in Nairobi. Raised on a farm in Wisconsin, influenced by a stubborn Irish grandmother who made a killer pastie pie, her film company Bal-Maiden Films is named after her Cornish and Irish ancestors, women who worked in the mines. Amie graduated from Yale University (B.A., English and Theater, 1985); and U.C.L.A (MFA, Film, 1992).